David loooves to go to Aunt Laura’s house because she has a whole wall of dollhouses, and she lets him play with them as much as he wants.
That’s the first thing he wants to do when he and Mommy arrive, even though he has to whine his way through a snack and pull-up check first.
Laura has a bunch of friends over, and it’s so humiliating to stand to the side of the dining room table where they’re all eating and talking while Mommy pulls his pants down and gives him a thorough pat-down.
Laura and Mommy sit down on the couch with a tray of cheese and crackers and start working on their crocheting projects, or something. He’s not really paying attention because he’s busy exploring the dollhouses and looking at the cute tiny furniture and dishes.
He bends down a little bit to look through a dollhouse on a lower shelf and Mommy sets down her crocheting, the hook clinking against the glass top of the coffee table.
She walks over and puts her hand down the back of his pants.
“What are you doing?” asks Laura.
“Oh, I’m just checking that he isn’t pooping. He’s been doing that lately.”
“Oh my, pooping in his pull-ups? He really is regressing, isn’t he?”
“I guess so.” Mommy pats his bottom and walks back over to the couch. “I guess he’s fine right now. But look at how red he is! Do you need to go potty, honey? Can you tell us if you do?”
He nods, choosing the stare at the dollhouse furniture again. But he’s so distracted now. It isn’t his fault that pooping his pants feels soo good. He doesn’t really think it means that he’s regressing…
Two of Laura’s friends come out and sit down, turning on the TV. They’re watching cartoons. It’s perfect background noise while he rearranges the beds in the green Victorian dollhouse.
“Does somebody need to go pee?”
It’s Mommy’s voice. Does he need to go pee? He realizes that he’s shuffling from foot to foot. He pulls his shirt down between his thighs. He looks over at Mommy and nods, feeling so shy in front of Aunt Laura and her friends.
“You remember what it feels like when you have to go pee, right? It feels kind of tingly and maybe a little heavy down there.”
Mommy gently pulls his hands away from the dollhouse and walks him to Laura’s bathroom.
The bathroom is light and airy, with an open window and light green walls. He feels a warm dribble between his legs and wetness spreads across his padding.
“Pull down your pants, sweetheart. Get your penis out so you can go pee in the toilet.”
But he’s already peeing in the pull-up. He fumbles in front of the toilet, trying to pull his pants down quickly enough that she doesn’t notice he’s already peeing. But in the process pee runs down the front of his pants and splashes onto the toilet seat and even the floor.
“I didn’t mean to!!” He feels tears prick his eyes. Mommy turns him around firmly and sits him down on the toilet. There’s still so much pee. It’s so warm and feels really nice even despite of how embarrassed he is.
“We’re going to have to tell Aunt Laura you made a mess. Are you finished peeing?” Mommy’s voice is stern. He really, really wants to cry now.
“Oh my goodness, look at your pull-up.”
It didn’t feel like that much when he leaked, but the pull-up hanging between his legs is soaked.
“I don’t want to have to go out there with my pee pants,” he squeaks. “Everybody is going to see.”
“Oh, come on. What else are we going to do? Take you out there naked?” He pouts. “Uh-huh. I knew you wouldn’t like that idea.”
Mommy pulls him up off the toilet and pulls his pants back up. The wet pull-up is heavy and growing cold. He looks down and sees wet patches forming around his thighs from it soaking through to his pants.
“We have to go get your spare pants from my bag.” Mommy pulls him back out into the living room, where he tries to hide his face from Laura’s friends. Is everyone looking at him or are they still watching cartoons? He can’t tell.
Mommy succeeds in getting his spare pants from her bag.
“Oh, Laura, by the way…David had an accident and got some pee on the toilet and the floor.”
“Oh, no problem. I’ll come help you clean it up.”
David squeezes his eyes shut and Mommy swats his bottom on the way back to the bathroom.
The bathroom feels really crowded with Laura in there, too. Mommy makes David clean up the toilet and floor with a spray bottle and a rag.
“Good thing it was just pee,” says Laura.
Maybe hearing “just pee” is what did it. David feels a cramp in his belly.
Mommy is getting a new pull-up out of the bag. David lets Laura take his pants off. Way more embarrassing than Mommy doing it.
Mommy wipes him down while Laura watches. Nobody comments on his extremely obvious erection.
Then Mommy pulls up his new pull-up while Laura gets his pants from the bag.
He JUST went pee. So why does he feel the pull-up start to get damp right away?
Mommy makes everybody wash their hands. She helps him, putting her hands over his and rubbing them down a little bit roughly.
And then it’s back out into the living room. David wanders back over to the dollhouses.
“Is it already time for dinner?” Laura is standing up, setting her crocheting on the table. She stretches.
“It’s ready!” shouts somebody from the kitchen.
Everybody migrates to the dining room and David stands up slowly.
He really needs to go poop now. Like, really bad. For some reason he didn’t want to say anything when he first felt it in the bathroom, even though the toilet was right there.
Even though it was mostly embarrassing that Laura said he was regressing, it also made him feel really excited. He watches the doorway to the dining room intently. Nobody is looking over. He bends his knees a little bit. It doesn't take a lot of effort. He puts his hand on his bottom and feels warm, semi-hard poop slowly ease into his pull-up…oh, it feels so good and solid.
“Where’s David? David!” Mommy’s voice. He quickly squats down, as if that will hide it…Naturally, it looks even more suspicious.
Mommy is standing over him. She pulls him to his feet.
“Oh my goodness. Aunt Laura is right…”
Now Laura is here too, and Jim and Peggy. David hides his face.
“Oh, he sure is regressing,” says Laura. “Let’s just take him to my bedroom this time. Shoo, everybody. Clear out.”
Jim and Peggy go back to the dining room.
The door to Laura’s bedroom creaks. It smells like perfume inside. Laura has a homemade quilt on her bed. She pulls a couple towels out of a cupboard and lays them out on the ground.
“How did you get him like this?” she asks Mommy. “I want to know your secret.”
“Lots of juice and movies. I sit him on my lap a lot and just cuddle him and rub him down. He loves it. I give him a pacifier at night, too…I think all of that puts him in…kind of a headspace…”
Laura lays him down on the towels and makes him lift up his legs. Something about lying there so helpless makes him lose control and he feels himself pooping again. It’s a little louder this time.
“What’s wrong?” asks Mommy.
“He went a little bit more. I’m surprised you didn’t hear it.”
David realizes that his thumb is in his mouth.
“Wow,” says Laura. “I don’t think a baby like that gets to have another pull-up. What do you think?”
Mommy frowns. “No, I don’t think so. I brought a couple diapers just in case.”
David covers his face. “Just in case” is so embarrassing.
But by the time Mommy gets back, he’s blissed out, sucking his thumb and rubbing his bottom against the towels, feeling the poop mush against his butt. He can’t even think about covering his face, just warmth and softness and…
Laura pulls his pants off, and then his pull-up. He starts to cry when he feels the cold air on him. Even more when Laura starts to wipe him down.
“Oh my gosh, David, don’t cry…” Laura leans up between his legs to wipe his eyes. “Mommy and Aunt Laura are here. We’re getting you out of your stinky pull-up and into a diaper.” Laura turns back to Mommy. “Did you pack him PJs?”
“Oh, no, I didn’t think of it…”
“That’s okay, he can borrow some of mine. They’ll fit you okay.” She leans over again and kisses David’s cheek.
“He needs a pacifier for sure, too,” says Mommy. “Or maybe to suck on my boob for a little while. Would that be inappropriate to do in the living room?”
“Not for a baby like this,” says Laura. “Okay, Mommy gets the honor of diapering him.”
Tender. Every part of it is tender. The way she pulls it under him, the way she smooths the tapes…
Laura’s pajamas are kind of big on him, and the pants slip down a couple times on the way to the dining room.
“Is David okay?” Jim asks Mommy as they come into the room.
“He’s fine. Just an exciting day. He decided to poop himself while he was playing.”
“Well, it looks like he’s cleaned up now.”
“Sure is. Is it okay if I take his dinner out to the couch?”
Mommy makes David eat four bites of dinner on the couch before she lifts up her shirt and gets him situated on her lap. His needy mouth finds its target almost immediately and he starts to suck, rubbing his thighs together.
“Oh, baby wants somebody to touch him,” says Mommy, reaching down and gently rubbing circles on his diaper bulge.
She pats him and then reaches for the plate of his leftovers. Everyone is slowly coming out of the kitchen, gathering on the floor to play some kind of board game.
David’s eyes are getting heavy and slowly closing. Mommy’s voice sounds so far away as she talks to her friends, still finishing David’s dinner. He slowly lets himself lie down, head in her lap. He feels a pacifier being slowly eased into his mouth. And then he drifts off to sleep…